Today is my birthday, and for the first time in quite a while, I’m going to be able to celebrate it with my parents, assuming, that is, that I can stop doing all the last minute things I need to do and get out the door. I’m heading up to Classis Western Canada, a meeting of delegates from the various United Reformed churches in this region (which stretches from Thunder Bay, Ontario to Smithers, British Columbia and to Salem, Oregon). But in God’s providence, the classis is scheduled for the day after my birthday and the venue is only half an hour north of my parents’ place. Happy birthday to me!